3 Mar
2020
3 Mar
'20
9:38 p.m.
Marc reckoned
Yeah, a 360/50. When all the tapes are organized and
color matched to the computer, you know it?s just a photo-op of a fake data center, or at
best a real one with many hours of preparation for a beauty shot. Nice picture though!
It could be the 'white room'. This was a windowless machine room IBM set up for
marketing and product photography of their
systems in the 1960s. I think it was located in NY. There was only a paragraph or two
about the white room in (IIRC) the book
'The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design' by John Harwood.
There happened to be a copy in the Uni of
Queensland bookshop a couple years ago. I spotted it on the shelf and thumbed through it
at the time, but it had so little
on what interested me (and I suspect cctalk readers) relative to the cost I didn't buy
it so I'm only going on memory here.
Steve.